Terrorism suspect blew himself up in Jeddah, injuring four, Saudi media says
RIYADH (Reuters) – A Saudi Arabian man wished in reference to a lethal 2015 bombing within the kingdom detonated an explosive machine in Jeddah on Wednesday as safety forces tried to arrest him, killing himself and injuring 4 others, state media reported.
Saudi information company SPA, reporting the incident on Friday, recognized the person as Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Shehri.
Al-Shehri detonated the explosive belt on Wednesday night time in Jeddah’s Al Samer neighbourhood, injuring three members of the safety forces, who had been in search of to arrest him, and a Pakistani nationwide, SPA reported.
The injured, who weren’t named, had been taken to hospital, SPA stated, with out giving particulars of their accidents.
In line with Saudi state media studies, Al-Shehri was suspected of being a member of a home terrorism cell that coordinated the 2015 suicide bombing of a mosque in Abha frequented by safety drive members.
Eleven members of the safety forces and 4 Bangladeshi nationals had been killed within the assault, and 33 individuals had been injured, state media reported on the time.
The Saudi Arabian authorities named Al-Shehri in early 2016 as one among six Saudi nationals wished in reference to the bombing.
Saudi Arabia, house to Islam’s holiest web site, Mecca, was the scene of a sequence of large-scale Islamist militant assaults within the 2000s, together with on safety forces and Western targets.
Such assaults had been carried out by Islamic State, Al Qaeda and different teams. Although assaults have since largely subsided, a number of individuals had been wounded in a 2020 assault that used an explosive on a World Struggle One remembrance ceremony in Jeddah.
Earlier this 12 months, French prosecutors opened a terrorism investigation right into a December 2021 explosion below a French car concerned within the Dakar rally sports activities race in Saudi Arabia.
(Reporting by Nayera Abdallah; Writing by Lina Najem and Alexander Cornwell; Modifying by Nadine Awadalla, Jon Boyle and Frances Kerry)
